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Captain Underpants!!!

I destroyed browns last year on the Niagara from shore running big swimbaits on 3/4oz-1oz Kalins bullet jigs. That was a fun pattern to fish. Cranks for steel can be deadly as well. My biggest steelhead was a hardware fish. Time and place for everything.

la pioggia cadde the first few hours this morning. But, I fiume for 3 hours. Not a touch nor a bobble from the float. Dark skies above,I knew rain was to fall . Stuck it out to see if I would hook up. With pesce to smoke from the day befores catch , my plan I was to leave before 10 am to complete along with my many other tasks for the day. I had a box of Peperoni to roast, and aglio as well. I packed the float rod away and was about to do the same with the casting rod. I thought what the heck, lets cast a few more. oh mio 1st cast and I was sorpreso with a thunderst hit. .Fresh pesce attacks the spinner, and is a freshy from the bay. Silver chinny. What a grande bonus to end the morning. I quickly clean it up and head home for my planned chores for the day. On vacation,but still lavorare giornata intensa Each bag 3-4 Peperoni and 2-3 cloves of roasted aglio. Gift from a co worker. I added this to my maple syrup glaze for the pesce. This stuff has some kick to it. grazie per la lettura

Congrats on the car and the wedding Wayne.

Been following your facebook feed Wayne. Busy man you have been!! Great job on... Everything!

Wayne..... she's prettier. The car turned out great!

Feeding the technology ogres who are viciously striving to bankrupt us all is not my cup of tea. I am scaling back as much as I can towards used, cheaper, proven and easy to use stuff, which, by the way, I enjoy more (also due to nostalgia perhaps). The 3 boats I had I purchased for around 10% of what they cost new, used them 7-8 years every weekend April to November, and resold them for the same price in 24 h with a simple posting on Kijiji, so paying less to play works well for me. Very content with the features they came with, including batteries & electronics, which have always felt like real luxuries compared to how I learned to fish. Of course some had to be replaced eventually because of the deceitful built in obsolescence (and I sometimes wonder whether we should cave in at all to such racketeering). Well, I have been consistently disappointed by the new products, which, in spite of all the new "bells and whistles" they came with, always resulted in a set back in fact.

Tell them it was full of muskie lures. Best bet for a bigger payout.

Dumb as a stump IMO!!! They are by far the easiest species to catch consistently, year round here in the great lakes region. I can't count the number of times I've caught the same Steelie twice on back to back casts. Caught the same one 3 times last fall and another a 1/2dz times over a weekend between a buddy and I ......dumb! ?? Josh

I decided to answer this in the forum just incase anyone else thinks that I enjoy ending threads for as you say "power." I am a 57 year old owner of this board, member number 77 from when it started. I helped write the rules which many have either forgotten or never read. In real life I own and run a plumbing company, manage a farm and have a family life. This does not allow me a lot of time to babysit threads that are breaking the rules or people who choose to break the rules. When a thread goes wrong I try to correct it by editing or warning and if not it gets locked down. I am sure in some eyes that I lock them down to quickly but since you are my guest in this internet home it is my privilege to censor as I deem necessary. Ending a thread so far early has caused no one any pain except myself when I get P.M. ed on and asked why I locked a thread when the reason is obvious it was offending people or was causing people to argue and turn on each other. For those counting I have locked 13 threads this year to date 7 of them are requests by the original posters. Hope this helps answer the question. Art

Actually, there is some logic to testing everybody. If an investigation revealed that a different person than they claimed was driving, it would be useful to know that person's blood alcohol level at the time of the incident.

Steelies are easily the dumbest fish in Ontario waters. They'll hit anything that fits in their mouth, particularly fresh out of the lake. I personally haven't thrown swim baits for them but senkos definitely work under a float. I've got a couple smaller safety pin style spinnerbaits I'm gonna get some steelies on over the next few weeks just for fun ? Josh

We fisher guys are a strange bunch I tell ya". You just keep on catching them on the stuff you like, but using those cheap CTC brass coloured swivels made in China will fail when you get that 30 plus pounder on, this I guarantee. I once saw a grown man cry when he lost his personal best Walleye that hardly fit through the 8" hole in the ice on Quinte, It straightened out like a bobby pin. Why the italics don't ask me. Johnny D out.

Realistically for most of them that I’ve seen at yard sales or swap meets a realistic new price would be $500 tops. Most 6 tray tackle boxes I’ve seen have a few costly rapalas, some mepps spinners, a few Williams and some various other name brands, then are filled with red and white bobbers, snelled hooks, rusty fillet knifes, a spring scale etc. Some might have a bit more expensive gear, but tops probably a grand, and I’m being really generous there. Most trays have 10 spaces tops, most that I’ve seen have a couple lures in each space at most, so let’s say at the outside 120 lures. Then let’s say every single lure is worth $10 (probably only half would come close at replacement value). So lure value is $$1200 brand new at the outside. $100 in hooks, bobbers etc and maybe $100 for the box so $1400 plus tax would be a pretty generous insurance ask for most “average” big boxes that I’ve seen. I have a lot of tackle. All of my rods, reels and Plano boxes are photographed and I advised my insurance company of my hobby including numerous customs rods. Even still I think I’d get a very hard time asking 10k for one box, unless it was full to the rim with Lymans, or old valuable new in package lures that are currently collectable and in demand. Seeing as you went high to start with I’d see how much I could get but 10k isn’t going to happen.

$10,000 dollar claim for a 6 tray tackle box? Your best bet is to go to a tackle shop, explain what you think your father may have had in the tackle box, and have them provide you a formal written declaration of cost. I can only imagine the claims adjuster face when they read you think your dads tackle box cost $10,000. Even if it did (it didn't), but even if it did, your father would been advised to schedule anything with value in the thousands (ie, jewellery, etc). I think you may find if you take a zero off the number, you might get better luck. When I had a tackle box stolen 10 years or so ago at Jordan Harbour I was able to get $1,200 from the insurance company. I had no receipts either. I had all new spring salmon lures which are $10 /each. Good luck. (if a broker was used for the purchase of insurance try getting their help...but I don't think they'll be able to hold a straight face to the $10K claim for a 6 tray, 60 year old tackle box)

I spent many many years chasing muskies after dark and really enjoyed it but heading back to the dock could be dangerous with other boats on the water with no lights on. I always drove at slow speeds and ALWAYS had a flashlight to scan the waters ahead of me. Unlike some on this board I don't consider myself an expert on everything under the sun and will let this case play out the way it's sposed to with a judge listening to all the facts and then making his decision. I wasn't there when it happened and I doubt anyone else from this board were either, so I find it interesting how many have already decided who was at fault without knowing the actual facts. But that's just me.